Carl Trueman has a sobering essay dealing with euthanasia here warning that Christians need to be very aware of how their intuitive virtues render them vulnerable to the spirit of the age.

“What is it that haunts the nightmares of parents of children with disabilities—with cerebral palsy, let’s say, or, given our psychologized times, perhaps even a propensity towards depression? I discovered the answer in a recent conversation with a friend who has a son with Down syndrome. It is the fear that when the parents pass away, the child will become vulnerable to state-enforced euthanasia . . . it is worth noting that one of the strange quirks of cultural history is the way things tend to become their opposite over time. The powerful always seize the moral high ground and justify it by reversing the meaning of language . . . Morality was absorbed by technical expertise. This was possible because in modern culture morality has been reduced to, or (perhaps better) replaced by therapeutic pragmatism. The same is now happening with debates about euthanasia . . . it will serve instead to reinforce the modern notion that those deemed less than fully human should be put out of their misery. And parental love will move from being part of the unconditional, natural requirement to protect and nurture the child to one of having the child euthanized “for its own good.”“